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“Man 'knows', which is why he is always two : his life and his knowing.”
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
“Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.”
― How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
― How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
“One place is as good as another, in the valley without exit...”
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
“If I am hungry,reality is nothing more to me than an ensemble of more or less edible things. If I am thirsty, reality is more or less liquid, and more or less potable. If I am sleepy, it is a great bed more or less hard.If I am not hungry, not thirsty, not sleepy, and do not need any other determinate thing, the world is a large ensemble of grays that are I don’t know what but that certainly are not made to cheer me up.”
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
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